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  July 19, 2026

  Adding a JIT doesn't always help

  Part 1 ended on a plan: rewrite the interpreted OpenSCAD DSL, JIT-compile it, inline the function calls and the speed would follow. I've been working A LOT on that since, and I have a confession — the…

• July 18, 2026

  Ads have gotten so lazy

  I was reading a new article earlier and for some reason my well trained cynical eyes glanced down at the line of ads at the bottom and I saw this:

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  July 13, 2026

  Yes I'll cater to the bots with MCP

  So in working on the hotchkiss-io site, I've run into a common workflow pattern.

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  July 9, 2026

  You Just Turn a Knob and it Goes Faster, Right?

  If it's not obvious, I love solving problems that are useful. They don't always have to be in software and frequently they aren't.

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  July 3, 2026

  Let's crank up the formality

  So Fable is back out today (July, 2nd) so what better way to put it to the test than to take it for a spin on a VERY challenging problem I've wanted to look into for recon-gen.

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  July 2, 2026

  Instrumenting Playwright, the gift that keeps giving!

  It started with a dashboard that wouldn't finish loading. All the built-in checks failed me — the deploy was clean, the data was in the tables — and the dashboard just sat on its spinner until the tes…

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  June 28, 2026

  Wayback Machine Saves Me Again

  I've run my own website on my hardware since roughly 2003. That's a long time for a side project and despite my best efforts to keep things backed up and working, time gets away from me. That's why I…

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  June 27, 2026

  Can I please have a real error?

  Debugging QuickSight.

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  June 26, 2026

  Death by Papercut using QuickSight

  I build recon-gen, an open-source financial-validation platform. One of its release targets is Amazon QuickSight. I picked it deliberately, integrated it carefully, debugged it deeply and documented e…

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  June 25, 2026

  Markdown guided development, meeting Claude on its turf

  An LLM is a text engine. Strip the branding and that's the machine — it eats text and predicts more text. So the format I hand it isn't a detail, it's the whole game, and the densest text I have is pl…